Here's a question for the legions of experienced coaches on here. Have you ever seen an end-cap come off a bat during play before? If so, how was the situation handled? Here's my experience:
2012 Little League All Stars, perennially strong league who in 2011 had average-size 9U players jacking 200'+ HRs regularly during all-stars. Flash forward to 2012 All Stars season and my son's team meets them in the district championship game. One boy jacks a line drive rocket HR over CF (about 200'). Next kid who comes up take a cut with a bat and fouls it off but the bat's end-cap falls off. The umpire picks up the bat end cap and hands it to the coach who is quickly out of the dugout to help out and the bat disappears into the dugout never to be seen again. Our coach was "above" questioning the legitimacy of the bat. I know it's LL and all, but what are your thoughts. I've seen hundreds and hundreds of baseball games and have never see a bat end-cap come off before. This is a league as well that was in the news for cheating in 2012, so I put nothing past them.
Your thoughts?
2012 Little League All Stars, perennially strong league who in 2011 had average-size 9U players jacking 200'+ HRs regularly during all-stars. Flash forward to 2012 All Stars season and my son's team meets them in the district championship game. One boy jacks a line drive rocket HR over CF (about 200'). Next kid who comes up take a cut with a bat and fouls it off but the bat's end-cap falls off. The umpire picks up the bat end cap and hands it to the coach who is quickly out of the dugout to help out and the bat disappears into the dugout never to be seen again. Our coach was "above" questioning the legitimacy of the bat. I know it's LL and all, but what are your thoughts. I've seen hundreds and hundreds of baseball games and have never see a bat end-cap come off before. This is a league as well that was in the news for cheating in 2012, so I put nothing past them.
Your thoughts?
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